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Originally Posted by taroliw
After all, various market reports I read about the US mobile market suggest that most US customers are really only interested in voice anyway...
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I don't claim to predict what will happen, but I will point out that before the iPod there were a number of MP3 players, but a lot of people (probably a majority) were still carrying around regular ol' CD players until the iPod became really big. Now if you see somebody with a Discman it's like, "What's wrong with you, why are you carrying around that huge thing with so little music?"
Not everyone with a portable music device uses the iPod brand, but it can't be denied that the majority do, and that it was the iPod that changed the format people use to carry their music around, whether they use an Apple product or not. I think in the same way the iPhone could actually be the force that inspires people who would otherwise think data use on a cell phone was too nerdy or high-tech for them, and it will become as commonplace as carrying an MP3 player.
Or it could flop horribly, I suppose. But Apple has already created a market where one didn't exist in portable music players, and they could do it again with phones.